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Til Death
Do Us Part
by
Carol D. Bos
I hope it is decades before death parts us
But I don’t know what God has in mind
I pray that he’ll let us be happy always
But I can’t comprehend plans divine.
It may be that turmoil will dot our
landscape
With it’s gray skies and swirling
intrusion
It may be that joy will fill both our
hearts
And we’ll think pain is just an illusion.
But I think it’s likely we’ll see some of
each
As we walk on this pathway together
I promise you now: I will give all I have
From my mouth you’ll not hear the word
“Never.”
With so much uncertainty, crime, and abuse
That exists, everywhere, all around us
More than ever we need to hold fast to the
truth
Of our marriage…Life will not confound us.
Time together is fleeting; it is too
scarce to waste
My goal is to make my life-mission
A beautiful tapestry highlighting “us”
Sewn with threads from our human
condition.
I want to explore the full spectrum of
life
Before we’re too close to its leaving
I want to embrace vast explosions of joy
That make both our hearts strong and
heaving.
I know I will love you for all of my life
No matter the time we are given.
I’m your till death parts us-left all
alone-
Until God reunites us in heaven.
Touched by
an Angel
By Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
From
"The Prophet"
by Kahlil Gilbran
THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And
what of Marriage master?
And he answered saying: You were born
together, and together you shall be for
evermore. You shall be together when the
white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the
silent memory of God. But let there be
spaces in your togetherness. And let the
winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of
love: Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls. Fill
each other's cup but drink not from one
cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not
from the same loaf. Sing and dance
together and be joyous, but let each one
of you be alone, Even as the strings of a
lute are alone though they quiver with the
same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each
other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your
hearts.
And stand together yet not too near
together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not
in each other's shadow.
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